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2009-08-30 Thread Mario Tonti
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync

2009-08-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 14:26:47 -0500 on Friday, August 28, 2009: Jim Wilcoxson wrote: Michael - I have a new LInux/FreeBSD backup program, HashBackup, in beta that I believe will handle a large backuppc server. In tests, it will backup a single directory with 15M (empty)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync

2009-08-30 Thread dan
I was just thinking about syncing servers. What if we just made an effort to sync the pool/cpool directory and the config files and then for the rest of the files in the pc/ directory run a script on the backuppc side to discover all the hard links. They push that list to the copy and have the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone with experience of MS-SQL database dumps?

2009-08-30 Thread dan
I personally think that using ssh compression is the better method. I say this because running rsync through ssh encrypts the data and compresses it(optionally). Unless you plan to run rsync in the clear then the built in compression isnt needed. On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Jeffrey J.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone with experience of MS-SQL database dumps?

2009-08-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
dan wrote at about 14:00:43 -0600 on Sunday, August 30, 2009: I personally think that using ssh compression is the better method. I say this because running rsync through ssh encrypts the data and compresses it(optionally). Unless you plan to run rsync in the clear then the built in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync

2009-08-30 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
dan wrote at about 13:58:10 -0600 on Sunday, August 30, 2009: I was just thinking about syncing servers. What if we just made an effort to sync the pool/cpool directory and the config files and then for the rest of the files in the pc/ directory run a script on the backuppc side to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-30 Thread dan
The hybrid system also has many other advantages including: - Allows Backuppc to work on OS's/FS's that don't support Unix-type hardlinks such as Windoze Here is an important point. Using SQL to store metadata opens up the platforms backuppc can run on. Considering that no filesystem is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Keeping servers in sync

2009-08-30 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: I was just thinking about syncing servers. What if we just made an effort to sync the pool/cpool directory and the config files and then for the rest of the files in the pc/ directory run a script on the backuppc side to discover all the hard links. They push that list to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-30 Thread Les Mikesell
dan wrote: The hybrid system also has many other advantages including: - Allows Backuppc to work on OS's/FS's that don't support Unix-type hardlinks such as Windoze Here is an important point. Using SQL to store metadata opens up the platforms backuppc can run on.

[BackupPC-users] how to write data to DVD?

2009-08-30 Thread baradoss
Hello, I just installed backuppc successfully on my server and give each position are saved in / var / lib / backuppc / pc /. but I would be worth its data automatically burn to DVD or DVD-rewritable, ie the hen I start the backup from the web interface of backuppc, the burning will start

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is there a speed setting?

2009-08-30 Thread higuita
Hi On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:30:25 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: well, under normal conditions (ie: unix), i would say rsyncd is faster, as doesnt have the ssh overhead... But if bandwidth is your limitation (which it frequently is on any decent system) then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-30 Thread Jim Leonard
dan wrote: One of the biggest concerns with backuppc that is constantly discussed on this list is syncing the backup data between two or more servers. Simply reducing the file count by eliminating the hardlinks would allow rsync to be used reliably and effectively. It's almost as if you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-30 Thread Jim Leonard
dan wrote: Once the metadata and config moves to a database, so many things become very easy. A single backuppc server could handle many more concurrent backups because multple data storage devices can seperate IO and relieve the pressure on the IO system of the OS. It sounds like you've

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems with hardlink-based backups...

2009-08-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim Leonard wrote: dan wrote: One of the biggest concerns with backuppc that is constantly discussed on this list is syncing the backup data between two or more servers. Simply reducing the file count by eliminating the hardlinks would allow rsync to be used reliably and effectively.